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noun

Glimpse n.

A sudden flash; transient luster. "LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran."

A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight. "Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen."

A faint idea; an inkling.

verb

Glimpse v. t. To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of. "Some glimpsing and no perfect sight."

Glimpse v. i. (past & past part. glimpsed; pres. part. glimpsing) To appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.

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"Glimpse" Quotes from Famous Books

... And then the glimpse of places strange to your eye, yet familiar to your imagination, that you catch as you pass along. Here is the portal of a large khan, with a fountain and cistern in the midst. Camels and bales of merchandise and turbaned negroes ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... be one thing at a time, Effendina?" asked David. He made a gesture towards Nahoum. Kaid motioned to a door. "Wait yonder," he said darkly to Nahoum. As the door opened, and Nahoum disappeared leisurely and composedly, David caught a glimpse of a guard of armed Nubians in leopard-skins filed against the white wall of ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Louis XIV. in France, when millions of people were in the extremest misery—even unto starvation; while great grandees thought it the acme of earthly bliss and honor to help put the king to bed, or take off his dirty socks. And if a common man, by any chance, caught a glimpse of royalty changing its shirt, he felt as if he had looked into heaven and beheld Divinity creating worlds. Oh, it is enough to make a man ...

— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly

... window slowly, watching the opening through which Arima had disappeared. He got half-way to the window; three more steps would bring him to the sill. And then, without warning, Arima leaped into the room. Even in that moment Orme caught a glimpse of a mirror in the farther room, and knew that the Japanese had ...

— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin

... and eighty feet, and, with a huge and desperate fish disputing every inch of the way, it becomes a seemingly endless labor. But at last Code, straining his eyes over the side, caught a glimpse of quick circles of white in the green and reached for the maul that was ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

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